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From a review of the first edition: Ian Eyres tackles every issue of the teacher training curriculum for English making it accessible and easy tunderstand As well as this, he offers reflection pieces tcheck your own understanding… With English exams looming round the corner for my PGCE, this book really has been a lifesaver Wholeheartedly recommended - Amazon Review English for Primary and Early Years is a comprehensive and essential guide tthe structure of English It draws on the readers own knowledge and understanding of English as the basis for analysis of texts at word, sentence and whole text level The book develops the readers understanding of the linguistic and literary knowledge required by the UKs National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 and 2 and by the National Literacy Strategy Key concepts such as, Standard English, approaches tgrammar, genre, clause structure and the role of phonics in reading are addressed in an interactive way which develops the readers skills as an active analyst of English, leading ta far deeper understanding than the dos and donts of traditional grammar The text is fully updated tinclude the most recent developments in such areas as synthetic and analytic phonics and multimodal texts An in-depth self-assessment activity is included with the text This is a set book for the UK Open University Course, Ways of Knowing: language, mathematics and science in the early years
